Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
DOINGS N THE WORLD.
Minister'S Rotten.Egged and Chased
Out Of Church.
Interesting Washington News Notes
Lively Debate In the House Of Com
mons.--A Girl Dragged to Death.
EGGED OUT OF CHURCH.
Troubles of . Baptist Preacher IN .
Jersey Village.

al e'4 Oefeoy v1ll0g0s
s New YoRK. May 9.-Park Ridge. Berge
teounty, N. j., is in ths throes Of a mini
. Iterial crisis and church war. It is q chez
;, lul. business-like hamlet, twenty-five
Imiles from New York, on the line OF til
New York and New Jersey railroad, col
> tanning q number OF handsome residence,
Dutch Reformed Church one hundre
. Iyears old, q saw-mill, a mill race and
fdam. Mr.. J. Leech, the Nassau street sta
ltioner, lives there, and demonstrates by
beautiful villa, with windmill attach
nent. the money there is to be made il
mueilage and reporters blank books. tn
Passaic river runs through, the place, ant
n the spring, when the wild torrent dashe
madly down toward it's home in the erea
Scean, it is said to be a foot in depth.
So long as the people of Park Ridge wer,
satisfied with one church his Satanic Mai
eety did not seem to do q great deal o.
Kicking" but when Rev. DR.. Switzer i'm
migrated seven years ago and the Berea1
Baptist Church was organized under thu
aospices of Rev. John Quincy Adams, q
well-known Free-Will Baptist Of this city
then the gentleman with horns, toothpick
shoes and q speAr-headed tail made it his
business to walk up and down through
Park Ridge, and cause people to act in
many strange and uncouth ways.
The Berean Baptists first held forth in
Leech Chapel, building now sadly in need
OF paint, and which was built by Mr.. M. j.
Leech; thence they moved to. the Park
Ridge Academy, east of the romantic Pas
cack, which didn't seem to pan out well as
brains and culture mandatory. There
Mr.. Switzer held forth until finally dislodged
on last Sunday night by popular New
York boarding house keeper, who believes
that the place will pay as q sunmer hotel.
The agent OF the academy property is
Mr. A. Campbell, an artist in gravestones,
and who for many years has chiscled
angels and kind words on cold marble for
those who were put to rest ia the cemetery
in the rear of the ancient church. Mr..
Switzer says that Mr.. Campbell has done
everything to sell or lease the property
since his church moved, but faile1 until the
devil and the boarding house man made
combination with the obituary ckiseler.
In order to fight the Dutch Reforme1
Church. the farmers, Campbell and the
devil, Mr.. Switzer found recruits in the per-
sons Of Evangelist Mnason, Pennsyl-
wanna local preacher, and Mrs. Berry, an
oldssashioned shouting Methodist from
Newark. These people say that the rival
church members were always doing every
thing in their power to drive Mr.. Switzer
out OF the neighborhood, and prevent him
from garnering souls through immersion in
Pascack Creek.
Two weeks ago on Sunday night, mem
bers OF the Reformed Church behaved so
badly in the Baptist Church that Brother
Mnason told them plainl what be thought
OF them.
After the meeting caucus was held, and
it was solved that on the following Thurs.
day night, when the Baptists held their
prayer meeting. Evangelist Mnason should
be rotten egged." It rained "pitchforks,"
however, on Thursday night, and by unani-
nous consent the ovation was deferred
until last Sunday night, when Mr.. Swetzer
had announced that he would preach his
farewell sermon. ..,.
The sun had hardly sunk behind the
Western slopes when the roads of Bergen
county became alive with people. who, be- |
hind their trusty teams took up the march |
to the Berean Baptist hurch to listen to |
ibis farewell sermon. The building was
soon crowded to suffocation and hundreds |
Of them, women and children surged on |
would happen on the inside. Mr.. Mnason |
vas the first speaker after prayers.
Evangelist Mnason took for his text,
And the Lord cast out DEVILS" Then in
! dramatic tone of voice he proceeded to
'ay that the room was full of devils; he |
Jaw them all about him, be felt them at |
lis th1 oat. SO be couldn't breathe. Then
,e clawed the air fercely and said "shoo"
! good many times. A well known member
II the Dutch Reformed Chur;h got up, and
ust as he was passing out of the door
mason shouted:
''There goes the devil now." Then the
congregation, mostly young men, shouted
Amen" and some one threw a cud of to.
eart done in chalk on the Sunday school
blackboard. Three young men went out
md brought in q half bushel of peanuts
nd distributed them among the crowd,
nd the floor literally ran with streams of
obacco juice. ...
Mr.. Mnason poured oil on the flames BY
y referring to the Reformed Church as
aIlt OF dead devils, and said the mem
ers warshiped idols and obeyed q priest.
'hese remarke were intended for Rev. Ed
'ard Loderwick. pastor of that church.
nd the consistory, including DR.. H. G.
[eef, H. G. Van Ripper, j. J, Storms, A. j.
lckerman, G. j. Alderman, G. H. Acker-
IAN, Stats Storms and Peter NJ. Hol-
rum.
The congregation shouted "Amen," eat
eanuts and squirted tobacco Juice with
ohm A. L. Blauvelt, the constable, sitting [
l the midst of the crowd, enjoying it I
ugely. Ii
Finally the uproar grew so great both in
de and outside of the building that Rev.
[r. Switzer thought he had better preach {
is farewell sermon and he took the plat 8
'rm. During the sermon the crunching of
eanuts and splitting of tobacco drowned =
he voice Of the preacher, 1T he kept on !
ntil he had finished. As Evangelist
mason was leaving the room very ancient
z struck him square in the neck painting
very lovely sunset scene, but the aroma I
cared the bnilding. This was the signal :
n the grand finale. The crowd followed q
'e two reverends. pelting them with eggs,
nd firing revolvcrs, Rev. Mr.. Switzer shout. d
g above it all praise the. Lord" Down o
le hill went the bowling mob and over the il
title bridge, and not until the two divines p
ere safe within their homes did the shoot
e of pistols cease. v
Yesterday. when the reporter visited the il
'om in which the meeting was held on Fl
lnday night, the floor was strewed with v
'anut shells and undried pools of tobacco L
ice, which Mr.. Switzer says will remain
q souvenir for the agent and the owner le
e says that he will now hold service in N
ut in bis front yard, and will defy the h
vii and all his imps. a;
Mr.. Switzer says that while the New Jer- f.
y law places u fine of $40 ON every per. ~
n disturbing public worship, still he is II
rtain there would be no use of his max. a.
3 q complaint. Mr.. Weild, who runs the n
" mill, says that the only fault to find
tn Switzer is that he wants his own way, n